# It's the 1970s, semi-obscure country music appreciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035 "2014-02-11T05:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/41 "2014-02-16T22:36:33Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > Here’s a 70’s favorite of mine: [Heaven’s Just a Sin Away](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ZK1DvTBpw&feature=kp), by the Kendalls, a father-and-daughter duo. I think they were pretty much a one-hit wonder. > [@](#): > > Two hits! Pittsburgh Steelers (Or “Stealers?”) Uh, no. Try 24 Top 40 country hits, including 11 that made the Top 10 and three #1’s. One of them, “Just Like Real People” (which just missed the Top 10) is one of the two greatest country songs of the last quarter of the 20th century, IMHO. The other is “Good Ole Boys Like Me” by Don Williams. As it happens, both songs were written by the great Bob McDill, whose best work I would put up against any of the more vaunted songwriters of that era. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/42 "2014-02-16T22:46:06Z")
Regarding the OP’s song Will they have moak and david in heaven Anyone know what that means? I’ve wondered about that for 40 years. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/43 "2014-02-16T22:55:59Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Regarding the OP’s song Will they have moak and david in heaven > > Anyone know what that means? I’ve wondered about that for 40 years. 😃 Mogan David 20/20. Cheap wine, better known as “Mad Dog,” much beloved of skid row winos. Am I being whooshed? ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/44 "2014-02-16T22:59:13Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > Uh, no. Try 24 Top 40 country hits, including 11 that made the Top 10 and three #1’s. > > One of them, “Just Like Real People” (which just missed the Top 10) is one of the two greatest country songs of the last quarter of the 20th century, IMHO. > > The other is “Good Ole Boys Like Me” by Don Williams. As it happens, both songs were written by the great Bob McDill, whose best work I would put up against any of the more vaunted songwriters of that era. Ignorance fought. Thanks – I’ll look for those songs. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/45 "2014-02-16T23:03:47Z")
No whoosh. I never liked wine and didn’t know any brands except Boones Farm (lots of tv commercials). Ignorance fought. thanks > [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > Mogan David 20/20. Cheap wine, better known as “Mad Dog,” much beloved of skid row winos. Am I being whooshed? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/46 "2014-02-16T23:29:28Z")
No love for [Tom T](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVA1hbF-pz4)? (Song from 1972.) Hmmm… My favourite by Emmylou is from '82, and my favourite from the Bellamys is from '85. [Merle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-IJxTd8dCo), 1973. [Possum](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNGSJbE6JT4), 1970. [Tompall](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWpYQjuJ0u0), 1975. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/47 "2014-02-16T23:39:05Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **Delphica** , could it be [There Stands the Glass](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKuTeDUPljQ) by Webb Pierce? Also mentioned [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpiYgFi42PM)… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/48 "2014-02-16T23:50:15Z")
One last trio… [Moe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5pHKI5y8jU). [Joe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZqCnvw3hIM). [Moe _and_ Joe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL1cz1KZ2xk). ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/49 "2014-02-17T00:43:58Z")
When I was eight years old, I remember hearing the song [Singin’ in the Kitchen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IzMVZHf7M) by **Bobby Bare** on the radio all the time. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/50 "2014-02-17T01:18:55Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > When I was eight years old, I remember hearing the song [Singin’ in the Kitchen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IzMVZHf7M) by **Bobby Bare** on the radio all the time. You must be my kids’ age. We had that on a 45 and it was one of their favorites. They’ll still try to sing it, after a few beers, and if they’re in the mood for reminiscing. If they’re really in the mood, they’ll segue into [Convoy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN4XpIbEY-Y). ---
**Author:** ![Sttrzangel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@Sttrzangel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sttrzangel)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/51 "2014-03-24T09:47:34Z")
I am wondering if anyone can help me… I believe it was a 70’s country song but is possible it was early 80’s. The only lyrics I can remember well are “Whatever happened to mamas and daddies living and loving together” and a line about: Mama and Daddy on opposite shores “Look who’s sinking out in the middle”. I know not much to go on, but I’ve been searching for this song for ages. I was very young when I first heard it and it was played a lot for a short time. Any clues? ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/52 "2014-03-24T10:33:23Z")
Great memories! This was the era I discovered country music, played on WEEP out of Pittsburgh. Charlie Pride [Is Anybody Going to San Antone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzHHvxNh4PY) Tommy Cash [I Recall a Gypsy Woman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb85vabw5xM) Johnny Rodriguez [Riding My Thumb to Mexico](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb29j13NxlM) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/53 "2014-03-24T11:16:17Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > That was a great tune, but for sheer nuttiness, I prefer [another Bellamy Brothers number](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sNNlHcHMw). Youtube pulled this. What song is it? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/54 "2014-03-24T13:14:11Z")
[quote=“Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor, post:22, topic:681035”] Wildfire. [/QUOTE] When she was very little, my sister had a spring-loaded rocking horse that she called Wildfire because of that song. I had to listen to C&W all through the 70’s because that’s what my parents liked and so the radio in the kitchen was LOCKED onto WMZQ, DC’s country radio station. But it was all popular C&W tunes, so most of the stuff in this thread is unknown to me. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/55 "2014-03-24T16:48:57Z")
Here’s a few, trying to stick to vaguely obscure stuff… [Billy Joe Shaver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI3sYS4LeLs) [David Allan Coe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEVZvgJMcG4) [Gram Parsons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhhkjqDGsA) [Guy Clark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju-JKwK4RM) [Hoyt Axton](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmKjNGhg6zg) [Johnny Russell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6a0znlrdOc) [Marty Robbins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqT6rI1Rm08) (Not best known for his 70s stuff, but this rather wonderfully references one of his great early hits) [Mickey Newbury](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm9SAqDLJhg) (The second most underrated artist of the 70s) [New Riders Of The Purple Sage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGxSYOZVhlM) [The Statler Brothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE000LFyuik) And of course [Townes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5wrzwINOJM) [Van](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaP8NGML_QE) [Zandt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VgdtTRZhag), [the](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6JG-yE8UTw) [single](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprRZ2wFQD4) [most](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjGOxo0KDMs) [underrated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDSPPzfECvU) [artist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx4PsxUvMqY) of the 70s, or probably ever. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/56 "2014-03-24T17:14:55Z")
Quite possibly the greatest C.B. song ever recorded, I give you [Rod Hart’s C.B. Savage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oG2o1jNrJY) “I’m in your chair, and I love it there!” ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/57 "2014-03-24T20:44:53Z")
_WKRP in Cincinatti_ introduced me to [Hoyt Axton’s Della and the Dealer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxlP5iB4d_Y) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/58 "2014-03-24T21:17:31Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > Male vocalist, medium-slow tempo, basically singing about being at a bar and drinking and sad about a lost love. (Yes, I realize that describes just about EVERY COUNTRY SONG). > > It is definitely not the “Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” but I remember it as being fairly similar in tone and theme. It’s from 1980 but my wild guess would be Johnny Lee’s Lookin’ for Love (in all the wrong places) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FAyDmJvjxbg/hqdefault.jpg "JOHNNY LEE ~ LOOKING FOR LOVE [LYRICS]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAyDmJvjxbg) ---
**Author:** ![MostlyUseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MostlyUseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyUseless)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/59 "2014-03-25T14:32:45Z")
SttrzAngel, Any chance the song you are looking for is BJ Thomas’ Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love? Great song. Because of my great wife, after 25 years, we are still living it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ayoungs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@ayoungs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ayoungs)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035/60 "2014-07-12T12:08:47Z")
This thread has helped me with some ideas, and perhaps can help me find an obscure 70’s country fun song. I know a chunk of the lyrics that go something like “I got this big old computer, and now it’s looking up my redneck family tree” … computer “more beer please” For years I’ve off and on been searching for the artist and song, but no luck. Anyone heard of it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-1970s-semi-obscure-country-music-appreciation-thread/681035.md?page=4)